For the past 15 years or so, I’ve been using a pair of Bose over-the ear noise-canceling headphones when flying. It’s nice cutting out that obnoxious, loud drone of the engines, and I don’t feel as tired as when I don’t use the headphones. Plus, they sound pretty good – I either listen to music [...]Read Full Article →

Calvin Carson is usually the one talking about backup methods and strategies (on Fridays), but I realized recently that I needed a different sort of backup. A little history first. A few years ago our old grade school gang (emphasis on old) decided to take our annual luncheons from restaurants around the area to one [...]Read Full Article →

I was really sure what to expect going in to see the new “Jobs” movie. So I approached the movie with no expectations. I hadn’t really paid much attention to the trailers or stuff that was written about it before hand. I wanted to see how they were going to pull this off. After all [...]Read Full Article →

Special Preview Last night enthusiastic movie patrons and surely Apple fans and users, packed the theatre and were treated to a special preview of the movie “Jobs” starring Ashton Kutcher, at the AMC Star Southfield 20 complex. As expected, a strong contingency of MacGroup-Detroit (Michigan’s largest Apple User group) [...]Read Full Article →

Back 6 or 7 years ago, I bought a Xerox Phaser 8550 printer. It uses solid ink – like crayons almost – melted onto the page. It makes very vivid pages, although an ink jet is still better for printing photos. But for text and graphics, it’s better and faster than an ink [...]Read Full Article →

While Apple’s Disk Utility can handle some disk corruption problems, I tend to fall back on two commercial apps, Disk Warrior and Micromat’s TechTool Pro. It has been nearly two years since any updates were released for Disk Warrior. Micromat released TechTool Pro 7 in June of this year. Cost — $99.99, but [...]Read Full Article →

I came back from vacation to find my Google Chromecast . I ordered early and so got in on the 3 free months of Netflix offer (it was good for existing Netflix users as well as new ones). So it didn’t cost me much to experiment with it. I’m glad I didn’t spend a [...]Read Full Article →